Printable View
I SERIOUSLY think Dr. Pepper makes boys! (not really but I love me some Dr. P!)
Thanks you guys so much for all this info - if you read this one and then read the "how we got girls" thread it really does demonstrate the differences between the two diets!
I conceived my DS on the 3rd month ttc. After my second bfn in 2 months, I was convinced I was infertile (HA!), so on the month I conceived I had begun taking EPO, Vit E, and B6 daily. I was also taking a daily multivitamin. I dtd every second day with daily attempts at O-2, -1, O, +1. We ran out of lube so I think we used Vaseline. Position was doggy-stye. I got a bfp at 10 dpo.
We were doing kitchen renos in the month I conceived and as a result we ate out nearly everyday (burgers, fries, pizza, Chinese, you name it). My sodium was probably through the roof. I also drank 1 diet Pepsi/Coke daily and had a lot of water throughout the day. Breakfast was NEVER skipped and usually consisted of a bagel (with butter/cream cheese) or a few pieces of whole wheat toast. Lunch was likely the leftover pizza from the night before. I like dairy, so probably also had two or three glasses of milk each day. I don't gain weight easily, so I ate and snacked on junk all the time - feeling hungry was rare!
Wow, I knew I was boy-friendly - but seeing it all written down, it's no wonder I have a sweet little :DS:
I can't remember if I've posted a Thanks in this thread already but if not, THANK YOU! Seriously my diet is so opposite of this that the whole other girl diet thread was a huge eye opener.
Atomic - apologies if I am completely blind, but is there a spreadsheet or an official diet page on here for TTC a boy?
ignore that last bit, I just clicked on your signature. I am so slow today.
The complete High Everything Diet plus some meal planning and recipes are available in the DM section or I can message you a simple version if you just want to see what it's about. PM me if you want the simple version.Quote:
Originally Posted by envisioned
Sorry I can't post them publicly but a lot of the other sway websites have very sticky fingers as Tamara found out. :(
I'm right in the middle of a HE Diet cookbook and focusing equal time on vegetarian and meat recipes (so there will be something for everyone.) Posting each section as it gets close to complete - Peanut Butter is already up and working on Eggs and Chicken Breast recipes now.
Oh also in the Dream Members section there's a thread that compares the success rates between IG and HE diets (HE is at least as effective if not more so but we have not had as many swayers use HE yet of course, so that could be a statistical variation that will average out over time.)
Ds1 - eating out all the time not exercising hardly ever drank cokes if I did never diet. Big tea and waterdrinker. My dh was a manager at a gym was working out pretty often.
Ds- meat and potatoes still eating out snacking tea drinker or water drinker with lemon. Dh doesn't eat veggie or fruits so we didn't really either. If we did it would be canned green beans with salt. Loved loaded baked potatoes. still no working out I am high stressed . Hope this helps.
I have 2 DS: and ate the same way for them, DTDd the same and used Preseed. My diet, very healthy, not too much sodium because I have hypertension, but meats, fish, veggies, sweets. I don't drink much caffeine or tea. I usually eat a full bowl and a half of cereal (Bran flakes with another sweet cereal like Honey Bunches) with skim milk each morning as soon as I wake up. I do eat a lot of yogurt and ice cream.
DS1: Prenatals months in advance, gained about 5 lbs because I was underweight. I have gobs of EWCM (weeks of it!) and on top of that used Preseed. We DTDd as much as possible, almost everyday through O.
DS2: Prenatals still, Fish oil everyday since being Preggo with DS1. On K supplements because of my blood pressure meds. Still eating cereal every morning. THis time I was still nursing DS #1. I was also taking Vitex but only for about 2 months and taking Red Raspberry leaf tea. My weight was actually a couple lbs less than my normal when I conceived, non intentionally.
I have only one son, but now that I think of it I couldn't have been more boy friendly.
Diet: I concieved after a honeymoon trip where I ate tons of salty foods and cal rich food. It was our hm so I thought why waste time on counting calories.. :) I had lost quite a bit of weight before the wedding and I was around 19 BMI when conceived but during the honeymoon I had gained a few pounds. So even though I was slim the trend was that I was gaining weight.
The time when I got pregnant was about most stressful of my life in terms of work. I had been promoted and given this huge project of which I didn't know much and I was so stressed worrying often in night time.
We bd quite often but never more than once a day. I always had an orgasm and laid half an hour hips raised.
Also one stupid thing came to mind, hope this is not TMI. At the time I was washing 'down there' with shower soap when showering. I don't know why I was doing that and stopped later when I had yeast infection (soap is very alkaline..).
So no wonder I had a boy. :)
DS1 : Gaining weight, ate tons of peanut M&Ms. Always ate breakfast, every morning had a very large bowl of frosted mini wheats with soy milk. A few weeks before trying I switched from one diet coke a day to diet coke with splenda (just one can a day). Drank a decent amount of water. Took prenatals with DHA (not the fish oil kind, the algae kind). Was on a strong antibiotics for 7 days, O'd right towards the end of the round of abx. Ate a lot of sodium (ate dinner out a lot/mexican food) Had TONS of EWCM. Had intercourse around 3pm (with Big O after he finished), laid in bed propped hips and got on laptop.. and O'd that night around 11:00 pm (I get very bad mittlesmerch) it even woke me up. Does anyone know if having bad mittlesmerch (sp?) is a thing only boy moms get because of hormones?